Is this Thomas Durnin? He sure looks like a Durnin. A lady posted this photo on the Mormon genealogy site. I believe her name was Karon King. I'm not sure if she's a descendant or not. Either way, if it's Thomas, it's a wonderful find.

I have a collection of news snippets from the Sumner Newspaper. In the July 30th, 1896 edition, it mentions Jack Durnan coming down from Minnesota and helping with the oats. I grew up on a farm, but we had tractors and more modern machinery. I've always been fascinated with how my great grandfather'...

I am putting this photo here because it has been mislabeled for some time. The photo that I have came to me from my aunt, Martha Slagle, and she got it from Durnan cousin, Anne Voegtlin. I noticed that it was labeled as being Charles Durnan in the photo, but I did not think that it looked like him. ...

Boy, it's been awhile since I've done any work on this board. Recently, I upgraded it and in the process, photos and files were deleted. Most, if not all of them, were uploaded by me, so I will be working on restoring them in the upcoming days/weeks. We have lost one member, Larry Durnan, son of Phi...

I'll upload the file here that has the written account that my Grandpa Leo and his brother Joe wrote about our family. It's a rather large file. It has other information in the file as well. Note: Of great interest to me is the part about Stephen going south to work in the rice fields. There was a p...

There's nothing in our family (Leo) that mentions anything about how Stephen met Bridget, but this would make sense. I guess the closest that we have in our line regarding what Stephen did was that he "worked a farm". Aurora wasn't the large city that it is today. I know for a fact that Pa...

According to the history that my grandfather wrote, Stephen took out naturalization papers in 1861, after he headed north at the breakout of the Civil War. This would, I assume, put him in Illinois, probably around Kane County or Kendall County. This is just an assumption. I was finally able to find...

I made a .pdf form a little while back. It can be filled out on your computer, then printed out. I was in the process of making it the type of form that you could fill out and hit the submit button and have the form sent back. This way I could e-mail the form to someone, have them fill it out and hi...